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Season? What seasons?

As historically-high temperatures rocked the Northeast yesterday with the mercury climbing to a balmy 72 degrees Fahrenheit in New York City's Central Park—even warmer than sunny Southern California—the muddy ski slopes are empty as people shed their winter clothes in favor of t-shirts and confused cherry blossom trees began to bloom while bewildered geese fly the wrong way.

Meanwhile, it was recently discovered via satellite images that a piece of the Canadian Arctic ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields broke off, and we haven't even reached "spring" yet.

Even the snowstorms that rocked the American Midwest over the last couple of weeks may be due to this warming trend, say scientists.


There has been "a fairly rapid rise of globally average temperatures, also temperatures in the United States, since about the mid-1970s," said David Easterling of the National Climate Data Center.

The records from the National Climate Data Center show that over the last 55 years, especially the last 20, the number of unusually warm days and warm nights has steadily increased.

The supercomputers that predicted all this decades ago have grown even more powerful. What do they project for the years immediately ahead, if greenhouse gas emissions are not drastically cut worldwide?

"Over the next two or three decades, we will see a trend of just more frequent warm spells and less frequent cold snaps," said Jerry Meehl, a climatologist.



I, for one, feel like a fucking asshole enjoying these warm temperatures while knowing in the back of my mind that there is a good chance they may lead to massive death and destruction within my lifetime. In fact, it gets me so bummed out I'm pretty certain I don't want to bring a child into this overheating world.

What can we do, though? It's no secret that America is a total slacker compared to the rest of the world when it comes to curbing the pollution and waste that cause these climate extremes. With 2007 set to be the hottest year to-date, we have to do something.

Liberal, conservative, whatever...This affects us all.
Please consider taking action now.

 

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_kungfoo_

_kungfoo_

Los Angeles, CA
April 2005

JAN 07, 2007 01:08 PM

Whaaaaaa?

According to Fox News:

...prominent climate skeptics Pat Michaels and Dan Gainor appeared on Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto to argue that the recent snowstorms in Denver prove there is a "Northeast bias" on global warming. Both agreed with Cavuto's claim that if "more of those who support global warming did not live in the East Coast, or more specifically in New York, and were stationed in Denver," they might be more skeptical of global warming.

Michaels added that "if you believe that warming causes cooling, you're like my neighbors down in Virginia who think that if you put hot water in the ice cube tray, it freezes faster. It doesn't work that way."



Could we please stop wasting time and focus on important issues, like the War on Christmas?! Geez

bald_eagle

bald_eagle

Indianapolis, IN
November 2006

JAN 07, 2007 01:10 PM

Actually, hot water does freeze faster. Ask your science teacher.

emperorreagan

emperorreagan

Baltimore, MD
January 2004

JAN 07, 2007 01:12 PM

My personal opinion is that we're in a positive feedback loop and human intervention isn't likely to change the trend.

I still drive a hybrid and try to minimize my own consumption, but think we're fucked regardless.

StarBelliedBoy

StarBelliedBoy

Philadelphia, PA
December 2003

JAN 07, 2007 01:13 PM

bald_eagle said:
Actually, hot water does freeze faster. Ask your science teacher.



Seriously. What a moron.

illstabyou

illstabyou

Brooklyn, NY
March 2004

JAN 07, 2007 01:14 PM

bald_eagle said:
Actually, hot water does freeze faster. Ask your science teacher.



+1

http://library.thinkquest.org/C008537/cool/freeze/freeze.html

The source is Fox News. What do you expect? Facts? wink

MandB

MandB

Bremerton, WA
February 2004

JAN 07, 2007 01:18 PM

I tried calculating my personal CO2 contribution on the "take action now" link.. they don't have my car [1972 VW Beetle]. Annoying.

OpticNerve

OpticNerve

Waltham, MA
November 2003

JAN 07, 2007 01:20 PM

I choose to believe that we're not fucked and that we can save the world.


Carbon Neutral Company

Please, don't be fatalistic and engage on a 'last hurrah' set of actions. We can do this. We just have to muster the collective will. We toppled the Nazis and we sent a man to the moon. We can turn this around. We have to turn this around. The only alternative is the death of our planet.

MschfMayhemSoap

MschfMayhemSoap

Phoenix, AZ
April 2006

JAN 07, 2007 01:31 PM

illstabyou said:

The source is Fox News. What do you expect? Facts? wink



a Person with a degree from anywhere but "Dubya State" might have been nice.

Lyam

Lyam

Italy
May 2005

JAN 07, 2007 01:34 PM

It happens the same here in Europe.Yesterday the Euroean Commisison discussed a document about the chances of a desertification of spain,greece and southern Italy before the end of the century,and the switching of summer tourism to the norhtern Sea and in southen Scandinavia.

geasavenger

geasavenger

Milwaukee, WI
May 2005

JAN 07, 2007 01:43 PM

Yea, while sometimes I feel like I am being paranoid seasons like his, and the last few years...most of them not very cold over all, really make me a bit worried.

Necia

Necia

San Francisco, CA
August 2005

JAN 07, 2007 01:45 PM

I personally know nothing about rockin' Midwestern snowstorms. Minneapolis has gotten snow approximately thrice this year. Most of it melted off each time. surreal

Not normal, man.

Franpire

Franpire

SUICIDEGIRL

Netherlands

JAN 07, 2007 01:56 PM

yep and my favorite holiday destination is going to disapear completely, the maldives. frown I have been once 5 year ago and would love to go again some time in my lifetime but within decades it won't be there anymore.
I try and do my part. Never leave electric goods on when I am not using them, not even on standby, recycle, do not drive a car, use recharge batteries but somehow it's not enuogh. Not when some have 3 cars, a tv in every room, dishwashers, airco's, holidays 3 times a year on poluting airplanes. Even the excessive X-mas lights you see on over the holiday costs the earth dearly. It's good to consider sometimes just because you can afford it, doesn't mean the planet can.
Look at me, being al wise, haha, if only I was! wink kiss

KMFCM

KMFCM

Peekskill, NY
September 2002

JAN 07, 2007 01:58 PM


enjoy nothing
the warmer it gets
the more hostile I become

everytime someone says "it's so nice out" I wanna fucking curbstomp them

squerk

squerk

Seattle, WA
December 2004

JAN 07, 2007 02:05 PM

It occurs to me that if the world population was at least 1/4th what it is now then there would be a lot less strain on the planet. People need to stop breeding for fuck sakes. Get snipped people. We need to start paying attention to the world population for once. People just seem to ignore having less children as an answer to the numerous environmental problems we face. Think about it, less people means less trash, less C-02 emissions, less rain forest destruction, less ocean depletion, and would help stop the extinction of animals who are losing their natural habitat. This isn't brain surgery.

It just seems like such an easy solution, but people (especially the religious ones) just can't accept the ideas of contraception, reducing family sizes, and getting fixed. As soon as I can afford it, I plan to get a vasectomy.

I'm not saying we need to create laws to force people. Instead, I just think talking about and promoting the idea of not having children would maybe have some positive effects. Unfortunately, people just don't seem ready to discuss this as a viable option.

Don't breed. smile

soft_shoulder

soft_shoulder

Madison, WI
May 2006

JAN 07, 2007 02:08 PM

Polar bears are starving and also drowning..
I greatly disliked snow and cold but I dont want to push other animals to extinction just so I dont "brrrrr".

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